[Chandler-dev] Alpha3 readme and known bugs

[Ted Leung]

You missed this one -- it's not an end user feature, but it is pretty  
noteworthy.

+ License change to Apache 2.0

Ted

On Jul 18, 2006, at 12:31 AM, Sheila Mooney wrote:

> I put together the readme notes and known bug list for Alpha3. Let  
> me know if you see anything wrong, missing etc.
>
> Sheila
>
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> Users wanting to check out the latest progress on Chandler, can  
> download our new milestone, Alpha3 which builds on Alpha2 by  
> providing a sneak preview of some of the features we are  
> implementing for 0.7.
>
> The work for Alpha3 centers around the following goals:
>
> + Background sync
> + Intel Mac support
> + Performance improvements
>
> New features in this milestone:
>
> + Background sync
> 	+ Synching calendars as well as publish and subscribe operations  
> now run in the background. This means you can continue to use the  
> application while a sync is running.
> 	+ By default, calendars sync every hour.
> 	+ Using the Collection->Synchronization preferences menu you can  
> change this option from every 1/2 hour to once a day.
> 	+ Users will still have the option to force a sync manually.
> + Intel Mac support
> 	+ Chandler can now be built and run on the Intel Mac platform.
> 	+ We also provide separate downloads for both the PPC and Intel  
> Mac on the downloads page.
> + We have made a number of architecture changes to improve performance
> 	+ Some operations were loading all items in a collection -- we  
> changed this behavior with a series of fixes
> 	+ The column header renders faster (use of freeze/thaw in the  
> column header when changing text)
> 	+ Optimizations in looking up events for a given week, including  
> use of the "sub-index" feature to look for recurring events
> + Further progress on internationalization
> 	+ Integration with wxWidgets i18n (dialogs are now localizable)
>  	+ Unit and functional tests cover non-ascii characters in all  
> displayable strings, non-ascii filenames, etc.
> 	+ i18n egg support
> 	+ Numerous i18n related bug fixes
> + Other stuff
> 	+ Search UI in toolbar (assuming this doesn't drop out -- I'm  
> surprised not to see it this morning)
> 	+ Zanshin free-busy query support
> 	+ Numerous bug fixes reported by users: alpha3 is first  
> dogfoodable release since 0.6.1
>
> For a complete list of major known bugs see list at http:// 
> wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/ZeroPointSevenAlpha3KnownBugs
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